| Show story of second sight in the summer of 1863 we were ep ending a few months at dunkirk the english consul at the time was sir john then major pringle we saw a good deal of the family and one day darlne a walk over the dunes after we had been talking of those bo dinga unsanctioned by the will which teach to beware major pringle related the following curious fulfillment of a dream when a boy of 15 he dreamed that he met with a strange accident that he had fallen in fact into the crater of an active volcano and was only rescued from his perilous position by means of ropes with great difficulty and after many hours it seemed ot durance the dream was vivid and circumstantial that it made a great impression on the boys mind and he mentioned it to several people years passed awny when pringle to be in sicily and here he joined a party of young englishmen in making the ascent of mount etna they attempted too close an examination of the crater pringle lost bis footing and was precipitated into a depression from which it was impossible for him to extricate himself in this terrible mant the recollection of his dream upon him for years he biad never though t of it but now the horrible nightmare was reproduced in all its fearful realism after a long and anxious delay he was rescued by means of ropes precisely as he had inen in en in hi dream sir john w a man of undoubted arf 11 scotch o 0 addicted to a belief in second sight mrs brosbe in temple dar |
